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FRANKFURT/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Germany's top solar companies warned that demand and prices for solar panels could fall off sharply after government subsidy cuts in their domestic market, the world's largest, kick in later in the year.

( McGill University ) Physicists at McGill University have developed a system for measuring the energy involved in adding electrons to semi-conductor nanocrystals, also known as quantum dots -- a technology that may revolutionize computing and other areas of science.

( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) MIT researchers have developed a powerful new tool for calculating the effects of Casimir forces, complicated quantum forces that affect only objects that are very, very close together, with ramifications for both basic physics and the design...

( Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres ) Some German airlines leveled their criticism against the forecasts of the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in London on the spread of the ash cloud over Europe, as these forecasts did not provide any precise information on the ash...

( American Chemical Society ) The American Chemical Society's Green Chemistry Institute will host the 14th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference from June 21-23 in Washington, D.C. The annual conference, which regularly attracts scientific leaders from around the world,...

( Virginia Tech ) The US Department of Defense has awarded a prestigious scholarship to a graduate research assistant at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech whose research includes assessing the benefits and risks of synthetic biology.

( Stevens Institute of Technology ) Electrical & Computer Engineering students at Stevens Institute of Technology made headlines last week as they took home first place, and an $8,000 prize, at the Rochester Institute of Technology's IEEE Student Design Contest 10 for presenting the...

Three of Australia’s largest coal-fired power generators have committed to building test facilities adjacent to their power stations, where smoke-stack CO2 emissions are captured and used to grow oil-rich algae in solar bioreactors.